Boosting Investments in Biodiversity and Ecosystem

Services

Amsterdam 11th Nov 09

ForestForestGreen oceanGreen OceanJungle

Ravenscourt Park

Year 2

November 2007

Untouched forest

SmokeForest FireFireFireBurning aged 17

Services of the ForestServices of the ForestServices of the forestServices of the ForestServices of the Forest

• Carbon conservation / sequestration• Lungs of the earth / Oxygen• Rainfall generation• Air Conditioning / cooling / evaporation /

shade• Biodiversity / warm + moist = 50% of life

on earth• Pollination / bees

Polar BearsPanicPanic Polar bears

Turtle MountainCanopy CapitalCanopy CapitalView of Forest

Drive Capital to the Canopy …

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• License to derive value from 14 definedESS

• Annual payments• Multi stakeholder benefit sharing - Gov;

Iwokrama ; Makushi people• Upside sharing - 80% then 90% to

Guyana

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HydrologyWaterHydrologyHydrologyHydrology

• Rainfall from diversity vs monoculture carbon• 75% transevaporation, only 25% runoff• Soil erosion - roots• 5 degrees cooler above canopy• Brazil electricity 70% hydro• $100 billion capex for 70,000 MW = $250 / ha• 8% = $20 ph pa…only Brazil……..only rainfall

RainfallGeneration of 11,000 tonnesrainfall per ha per annum

Indigenous communities

Biodiversity

Animals

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Rainfall generationVOC’sHow the forest makes the rainHow the forest makes the rainRAINFALL MECHANISM IN AN UNDISTURBED RAINFOREST

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Nuclei (CCNs)

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Diagram by

Antonio D Nobre

[MODEL]

CaptureCarbon Capture

3 tonnes CO2 per ha perannum

StorageCarbon Storage

“ incentive accounting”methodology

0.6% annual average x50%Conservation of 3.4 tonnes

CO2e per ha per annum

What is this worth ?

Costa Rica $42

Mckinsey $39

Conserved CO2e 3.4 x $5= 17Sequestered CO2 3 x $5 = 15

Carbon content only $32

ESS CertificatesRegisteredTradable

Detachable carbon couponFungible

Price$20 ( vs $32 )

Who will pay ?Who will pay ?

UNFCCC - REDD plus ?

Waxman Markey ?

TEEB / G8 ?

PRP Emergency Package ?

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www.iwokrama.org

www.canopycapital.co.uk

www.globalcanopy.org

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